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MDU welcomes the launch of the government’s Change NHS initiative

The MDU today welcomed the launch of the government’s new Change NHS initiative, designed to generate conversation and to encourage NHS staff, patients and stakeholder organisations to input their ideas and suggestions for the upcoming NHS 10 Year Health Plan.  Announcing the project Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Wes Streeting said that ‘the health… Read more »

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BASC launches second newspaper campaign
BASC to School reaches 50,000 Landmark

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) is delighted to announce a significant milestone for its BASC to School programme, having now engaged with 50,000 school children across the UK in 2024. This achievement takes BASC’s total engagement since 2021 to an impressive 127,261 schoolchildren and young people. The landmark highlights the programme’s growing… Read more »

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Lord Warner publishes data on NHS job cuts
900 NHS job cuts ‘regrettable’

A total of 900 NHS staff have lost their jobs in the last five months because of financial problems and reorganisations in healthcare trusts, new figures show. Ministers said just 167 of the 903 compulsory redundancies since May were among clinical staff, and although they were “regrettable”, said they represented only a tiny fraction of… Read more »

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Conservatives claim PFI deals have cost the NHS an extra £45 billion
Tories: NHS wasted billions in PFI deals

The Conservatives have accused ministers of wasting £45 billion on NHS hospital building contracts by pressing ahead with unpopular private finance initiative deals (PFI). Figures collated by the party suggest NHS trusts will have to pay private firms £53 billion for hospitals over the next 30 years, although their total value is only £8 billion…. Read more »